Chapter 923: Little Sister (1/2)

”What are your plans for the deciding match?”

He Yi looked unperturbed when she asked me this question smilingly, but I knew that she was really as nervous as I was. If we lost this, our WEL journey would be ended by our sworn enemy, Candle Dragon.

Right now, the biggest variable of this match was without a doubt Ye Yuse the Charm Master. Had she been anyone else, our chances of winning would’ve been close to 100%. Her Divine General Skill, Nether Curse, was just too OP and put tremendous pressure on us both. With a hit rate between 25% to 50%, all she needed was one lucky moment to make us type GG. In fact, she had already had multiple lucky moments throughout this match.

I faced my beautiful guild leader’s hopeful gaze and thought seriously for a moment. ”Our greatest problem is Ye Yuse’s Nether Curse. We need to find a way to dodge it.”

Gui Guzi responded, ”Kill Ye Yuse first!”

But Chaos Moon shrugged and shot down his idea. ”The second round was literally the failing example of that. Killing Ye Yuse wasn’t the problem, guarding against her do-or-die Nether Curse is.”

An idea crossed my mind at that moment. I smiled.

Beiming Xue asked me, ”Did you think of something, big bro?”

”It could work.”

”Mn. Tell me already!”

Beiming Xue stood on her tiptoes and moved her ear closer to my mouth. After I whispered something to her, the girl couldn’t stop grinning. ”Alright, we’ll do just that!”

……

Swhoosh swhoosh!

We entered the arena once more. This round was a matter of honor for both Candle Dragon and Ancient Sword Dreaming Souls.

I saw a flash behind Candlelight Shadow’s eyes as he assumed a combat stance. Clearly, he was just as nervous as we were. In fact, Ye Yuse was the most nervous of us all—because it was the first time she participated in a top-tier competition like this—and Beiming Xue the least. She was born with an optimistic and carefree temperament, so she didn’t feel any stage fright at all.

Candlelight Shadow charged me the moment the battle began. His tactic was obvious. He would pin me down so that Ye Yuse could find an opportunity to use her Nether Curse.

Beiming Xue activated Leap the second I used Coiling Dragon Revolution. I myself ran forward to escape Candlelight Shadow’s attack temporarily.

Swhoosh!

Ye Yuse tried to execute the same move she used before—teleporting in between me and Beiming Xue and using Nether Curse—but she quickly realized that neither of us were within range. It was exactly how we planned for it to happen. Even worse—for her—after noticing that Ye Yuse hadn’t used Nether Curse, I immediately turned around, locked onto her and activated Thunderous Charge.

Now she didn’t even have a chance to use Nether Curse anymore.

Swhoosh!

Candlelight Shadow appeared behind her while swearing, ”Shit!”

The light of Barrier Break appeared on his blade, followed by Shattering Sword and Shield. He was going all out to protect his partner’s life.

I went all out myself, parrying Barrier Break but allowing Shattering Sword and Shield to delete 110k HP from my health pool. I was now right next to Ye Yuse, and she had no Blink to escape. She tried to move away from me, but her movement speed was lower than mine. A quick dash and turn later, I blocked her path of retreat and punched her using Magic Piercing Punch!

Bang!

Swhoosh!

The Purple Ying Sword glowed again, and I slashed toward Ye Yuse.

As it turned out, the crisis awakened Ye Yuse’s potential, and she swung her scepter in an attempt to parry my attack. I smiled though. There was no way she could stop me with her level of skill.

I tilted my sword slightly while bringing up my left arm, punching her scepter aside. Then, the Purple Ying Sword glowed purple as I slashed Ye Yuse on the shoulder—Frightening Slash!

40993!

The damage number was blue instead of red, signalling the amount of MP damage she took. I knew that the skill had deleted most, if not all, of her MP because a mage who didn’t invest at least some points into Stamina would be too fragile to participate in any form of PvP.

Candlelight Shadow caught up to me from behind and tried to stop me, but I retaliated with Burning Blade Slash!

Boom boom boom!

Candlelight Shadow had tasted the power of Burning Blade Slash many times by now, so he dared not endure the skill head-on. The moment he crossed his sword in front of himself and used Guard, I immediately rushed forward and executed Crushing Blow!

MISS!

This meant that my next strike would almost be dealing true damage, not to mention that a crit here would be enough to one-shot him. He had no choice but to back away from me.

Behind me, I heard Ye Yuse letting out a groan and hitting the ground with a thud. She didn’t have her MP, and her Blink was still on cooldown. There was no chance she could’ve survived Beiming Xue’s attack. She was dead in just a couple of Spiraling Arrow Blades.

……

Candlelight Shadow’s face turned green in an instant. His heart turned as cold as ice when he saw me using Tenacity of the Dead and healing myself for over 60k HP.